Roger Bacon was (mostly) the late Mike Ramsden; one of our fellow PPRuNers, also very sadly late and greatly missed, was an erstwhile defence editor at Flight and seemed to share JMR's wonderful sense of humour so I suspect he may have shouldered some of the responsibilities of producing Straight and Level each week. Haven't read Flight in a very long time - not even surreptitiously in Smiths - so no idea if S&L and TAPs are still prevalent amidst its august pages...